Famous Cricketers No 69 - G. Boycott

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Championship 19 31 11 1545 184 77.25 6 8 9 Other Yorkshire matches 2 3 1 112 52* 56.00 - 1 1 Season 21 34 12 1657 184 75.31 6 9 10 Career 596 994 161 47434 261* 56.94 149 230 260 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Championship (6-ball) 10 2 29 0 - - - Career (6-ball) 538.5 177 } 1459 45 4-14 32.42 - (8-ball) 56.4 6 1986 At the age of 45, Boycott’s final season of first-class cricket was interrupted for six weeks when he broke a bone in his left wrist. He failed by just 8 runs to reach 1000 runs in a season for what would have been the 27th time. Yorkshire did not re-employ him for the following season feeling it was time to give younger players an opportunity. His fourth match of the season, against Middlesex, was the 600th of his first-class career and the second innings of the same match was his 1000th innings. During the season Boycott scored two hundreds, 127 against Leicestershire and 135 not out against Surrey, to take his total to 151, which lifted him to fifth place in the list of first-class century makers. In his final innings he was run out for 61, playing against Northamptonshire. In view of his reputation as an unreliable runner between wickets this was perhaps an appropriate way to finish his 1014 th and last first-class innings. During the season he passed Tom Graveney’s aggregate, ending the season with 48,426 first-class runs, the most by a post-war batsman. This made Boycott the eighth highest scorer in first-class cricket. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 597. Yorkshire v Sussex, Headingley, May (7), 8, 9 (Yorkshire won by one wicket) innings forfeited 195 c I.J.Gould b G.S.Le Roux 12 251-9 55-1d 598. Yorkshire v Derbyshire, Bramall Lane, June 4, 5, 6 (Derbyshire won by 99 runs) b M.Jean-Jacques 22 259-7d 398 c and b M.A.Holding 69 180 140-2d 599. Yorkshire v Gloucestershire, Harrogate, June 7, 9, (10) (Match drawn) b C.A.Walsh 81 450-8d 257-6 600. Yorkshire v Middlesex, Lord’s, June 14, 16, 17 (Yorkshire won by 69 runs) c C.T.Radley b J.E.Emburey 69 276 173 1 b A.R.C.Fraser 31 153 187 601. Yorkshire v Worcestershire, Worcester, June 18, 19, 20 (Match drawn) c G.A.Hick b J.D.Inchmore 76 405 300-2d lbw b D.B.D’Oliveira 36 196-4d 246-7 602. Yorkshire v Northamptonshire, Luton, June 21, 23, 24 (Match drawn) c R.J.Bailey b N.A.Mallender 3 314-6d 385-4d c S.N.V.Waterton b D.J.Capel 68 240-8 193-7d 603. Yorkshire v Warwickshire, Headingley, June 28, 29, 30 (Match drawn) c Asif Din b G.C.Small 4 300-6d 385 lbw b B.M.McMillan 26 154-7 201-4d 604. Yorkshire v Gloucestershire, Bristol, July 2, 3, (4) (Match drawn) c P.Bainbridge b D.V.Lawrence 8 269 246 did not bat - 20-2 173 1 605. Yorkshire v Leicestershire, Middlesbrough, July 5, 7, 8 (Match drawn) lbw b P.A.J.DeFreitas 127 309 314 82-4 57